CHICAGO (AFP) – US Representative Ron Paul of Texas won a statewide Republican presidential straw poll in Illinois with 52 percent of the vote, the Arlington Heights Daily Herald reported.
Businessman and Tea Party favorite Herman Cain was second with a total of 50 percent of the vote — 15 percent online and 35 percent in person — the local newspaper reported.
Cain scored high despite accusations of sexual harassment leveled against him by several former female employees.
The candidate has dismissed the charges as false.
The newspaper said former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney matched Cain’s in-person voting score at 35 percent.
But Romney won only seven percent of the online vote, while Paul earned eight percent of the in-person vote, the report said.
Paul had 66.5 percent of online votes.
“I congratulate Congressman Paul on his victory,” The Daily Herald quotes Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady as saying. “It is clear Illinois Republicans are gearing up for a tremendous election year in 2012.”
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